Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREyFTIEs.

Booths receipts at his late engagement
at Los Angeles footed up $4,000.
General Rosecrans is to be appointed
Superintendent of the Coast Survey.
Thousands of cattle perished in Montana
during the recent heavy snow-storms.
The people of Newfoundland are on
the verge of rebellion against the Home
Government.
Mrs. Ruth H. Harmon, grandmother of
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, died at Jackson,
Mich, yesterday.
L. E. Klesdafer shot and killSd Miss
Lena Obitz near Belmont, Mich, and then
committed suicide.
1t is denied that Jay Gould has secured
a controlling interest in the st. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad.
William McCaw, on trial at Indianapolis
for murder committed nineteen years
ago, has been acquitted.
W. Buckingham has been elected to
represent the Los Angles Typographical
Union at the International Convention at
Buffalo.
AL the arrangements between Hanlan
and Gaudaur to row May 90th for the
championship of America-stakes 50 600
have been completed.
The investigation in the Lynch -Vandever
contest case at Los Angeles drags YEARLY
along. Thus far nothing of importance
to the contestant has been elected.
The traffic managers and general freight
agents of the various transcontinental lines
west of the Mississippi river, in session at
Chicago, are unable to agree upon a tariff.
Mrs. Amanda Greeley, sister Of Horace
Greeley, has been stricken with paralysis
at the house of her son, Louis Kossuth
Greeley, at Spring Station, Warren county,
Pa. She is y years old.
The Chicago Times Little Rock lark. J
special says: Rev. John White, colored,
aged 102 years, was yesterday married to
Mrs. Edie Smith, aged 20, at Lonoke, Ark.
| White was born in South Carolina in 17S5.
He has been preaching the gospel for 81
| years.
| Last Thursday a snowslide in the Sell
kirk range, Manitoba, struck a snowplow
train, carrying it down an immense gorge,
and completely hurying it. When dug out
seven hours after, Superintendent Green
and six men. all employees, were found
smothered to death.
Ferdinand, son of John Grosbauer, OF
Traver, while visiting at his uncle's place,
had both legs caught in the cogs of a water
hoisting machine and frightfully man
gled The bones were broken into one-inch
| splinters. Amputation was necessary, and
his life is despaired of.
General Miles received telegram from
Captain Lawton. saving that the troops
were encamped near Nogales, but anticipa-
ted no trouble The Mexican authorities
regret the outrage, and have arrested all Of
! the offenders but one, and turned them
over to the American civil officers.
| Mrs Caroline Becker, who has been on
| trial in the United States Circuit Court al
| Cincinnati, for defrauding the Government
of $4,000 by pension claim, was sentenced
| yesterday to two years imprisonment in
Dayton jail. Mrs. Becker is the widow ol
Colonel Godfrey Becker, of the Twenty.
eighth Regiment Of Ohio Volunteer In.
fantry, who died in 1865 from disease
contracted while in the army.
James F. Goodman, wealthy citizen Of
| St. Louis, had q dispute with his wife about
piece OF real Estate he mad presented Il
| his little son. Goodman kicked his wife out
| of bed. and then Drained her with a boot
! jack. The child witnessed the killing
Goodman then went to the barn, severed
an artery in his arm and hanged himself to
a rafter. The dead woman was Goodman s
third wife, and the child to whom the
property had been presented was the son OF
| former wife of the suicide.